And apologies for the spam filter @loke! It sometimes catches legitimate posts like your technical programming article. You can just send us an email (hello at write.as) or a DM with your Write.as username. We'll make sure to whitelist your account so you can publish without getting blocked again.

In the meantime, we took a step towards comments by pushing ActivityPub mentions into Write.as last month, so you can mention your own microblogging account so that Fediverse replies to your blog post also notify you there.

Publishing to a central service like ours gives law enforcement a single target to go after. Instead, you can create a closed community of bloggers on your own server and domain with https://WriteFreely.org.

If you're concerned about your internet traffic being monitored, use our Tor hidden service to publish: writeas7pm7rcdqg.onion. Then, in the URLs you share, replace this part with "write.as", so others can easily read it.

If you don't need to edit or delete the post later, do this in an incognito browser window. Since it's stored in your browser alone, your authorship history will be deleted as soon as you close the window.

If you need to create a blog / site for future posts, don't add an email address to your account — we don't need it.

If you only need to get a message out, go to https://write.as/new, publish the post, then spread the URL through other means — SMS, encrypted chat, paper and ink, etc. We will have very little information about you.

As we've always taken a stand against state surveillance, we stand now against state violence — especially as it's inflicted disproportionately on the Black community. We stand with those seeking justice for the brutality committed by our unjust system. #BlackLivesMatter